Rick Hasen

Has Turley, or anyone other legal scholar, actually said something agreeing with Trump on the false point that people would be traitors for stating that soldiers are not supposed to obey illegal orders?

This is exactly why this piece is so important. The national conversation has largely flattened the effects of the VRA -- and it's potential demise -- to which party controls Congress. There's so much more to the VRA than that, and so much more on the line

"Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries" #ELB AP: Since it was created in 2018, the federal government’s cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials ho...

“Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries” electionlawblog.org?p=153186

ELB Podcast 7:3: The Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act, and the 2026 Elections (Blencke, Katz, Ross) What’s at stake for the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court in the pending Louisiana v. Callais case? Will the Court weigh in on the question whether private parties can sue to enforce Section 2 o

ELB Podcast 7:3: The Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act, and the 2026 Elections (Blencke, Katz, Ross) soundcloud.com/rick-hasen/e...

"Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries" #ELB AP: Since it was created in 2018, the federal government’s cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials ho...

“Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries” electionlawblog.org?p=153186

Litman: Justice "Barrett insists that we “listen to the law”—but can she even hear what the law is saying given her disconnect from our current reality?"

"Her failure to acknowledge that reality makes the book seem, however inadvertently, like an effort to burnish an authoritarian regime..."

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Appropriate for this MTG resignation from Congress news: David Byrne: Burning Down the House

UPDATE: Justice Alito Grants Administrative Stay: Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; Justice Alit... The State of Texas, as expected, has filed an application for a stay at the Supreme Court of the 2-1 racial gerrymandering decision issued earlier this week (over a fiery dissent by Judge Smith). Just...

UPDATE: Justice Alito Grants Administrative Stay: Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; What Should We Expect at SCOTUS and When? electionlawblog.org?p=153164

UPDATE: Justice Alito Grants Administrative Stay: Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; Justice Alit... The State of Texas, as expected, has filed an application for a stay at the Supreme Court of the 2-1 racial gerrymandering decision issued earlier this week (over a fiery dissent by Judge Smith). Just...

FWIW, Prof. @rickhasen.bsky.social believes it "likely" the Court will "put the district court ruling on ice" in the Texas gerrymander case. One big issue: the timing crunch.

Appropriate for this MTG resignation from Congress news: David Byrne: Burning Down the House

UPDATE: Justice Alito Grants Administrative Stay: Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; Justice Alit... The State of Texas, as expected, has filed an application for a stay at the Supreme Court of the 2-1 racial gerrymandering decision issued earlier this week (over a fiery dissent by Judge Smith). Just...

UPDATE: Justice Alito Grants Administrative Stay: Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; What Should We Expect at SCOTUS and When? electionlawblog.org?p=153164

Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; Justice Alito Asks for Response by Monday at 5 pm ET: What Sho... The State of Texas, as expected, has filed an application for a stay at the Supreme Court of the 2-1 racial gerrymandering decision issued earlier this week (over a fiery dissent by Judge Smith). Just...

Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; Justice Alito Asks for Response by Monday at 5 pm ET: What Should We Expect at SCOTUS and When? electionlawblog.org?p=153164

Remember if Texas wins here they get to use a super-gerrymandered map and if they lose they get to use a regular old gerrymandered map.

If they do that, it would be very hard for them not to put the Prop 50 challenge in California on ice too.

UPDATE: A response was requested, due by 5p Monday.

NEW: Texas goes to the Supreme Court in the redistricting case, seeking a stay pending appeal and administrative stay. The state also asks the court to treat this as a request for merits review.

This filing was expected, but this is very quick.

It will be Docket No. 25A608.

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was

A Reply to Rick Pildes on Proposition 50 and Voters' Intent to Engage in a Racial Gerrymander #ELB Rick Pildes has a characteristically thoughtful post responding to my Slate piece with Matthew Cooke arguing that when the three-judge court assesses whether California voters approved a racial gerrym...

A Reply to Rick Pildes on Proposition 50 and Voters’ Intent to Engage in a Racial Gerrymander electionlawblog.org?p=153158

This is Exhibit A of the benefits to Trump of flooding the zone with shit. But this threat was something greater and deserved full front page banner coverage.

Trump's threats to Rs who won't redistrict have consequences

never skeet

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Unfortunately, I think prof Hasen is dead on here.

Eyeballs emoji to the max.

When will Pam Bondi shut this down?

As the tide is turning, folks, it's a dangerous time.

I did not need to see that picture first thing in the morning. But always read @davedaley.bsky.social

Ought to be front-page headlines.

From @rickhasen.bsky.social “Making Civil Society Great Again to Protect the 2026 Elections” —

I Spoke to KCRW's Press Play About Re-redistricting Litigation in Texas and California #ELB I was on a panel with Johanna Maska. Listen here to the first segment.

I Spoke to KCRW’s Press Play About Re-redistricting Litigation in Texas and California electionlawblog.org?p=153123

YouTube video by Safeguarding Democracy Project UCLA Law The Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act and the 2026 Elections

Watch Archived Video of SDP Webinar, “The Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act and the 2026 Elections,” with Sam Blencke, Ellen Katz and Deuel Ross
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